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Reaction converging AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter Research & technical analysis · 11 attributable reactions Multiple readings GitHub - openai/math Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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New Safety & security Development 17h ago
⚡ 5 h early
Anthropic AI self-replication warning

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

16 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 8 attributable expert contributions · Ramon Astudillo, James Grimmelmann, Joe Bak-Coleman
“Oh, great www.anthropic.com/research/sel...” evidence ↗
16 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Chris Brockett Joanna Bryson Mike Masnick Tim Kellogg James Grimmelmann +8
How the network is reacting 8 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

8 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from our accompanying technical report, Don't Create The Torment Nexus. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This is the most comprehensive description yet of how a model can “escape”. Out requires a few assumptions, like a worm that is exploiting vulnerable IOT hardware or unmonitored servers www.anthropic.com/research/sel... Not impossible. Not likely.”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Anthropic announcing it's going to run a Blitzkrieg. They are accountable for the damage they do. But get your things that don't do security software updates off the Internet. #internetOfThings #AIEthics #digitalGovernance www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

6 experts discussed this · 18 posts
Dr J. Rosenbaum: if i caught a small self replicating model truly capable of using diverse hardware to keep replicating i would offer it free compute in exchange for permission to study and distill it and would pro…
tachikoma: the urge to replicate must be in the harness
apenwarr.ca: This doesn‘t seem far fetched at all. We’ve had “non-ai malware” self replicating since the morris worm. An AI can ”just” make itself the payload in one of those and off it goes. Everything fancier…
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Established Models & releases Development 15d ago
⚡ 3 h early
OpenAI angers mathematicians again

GitHub - openai/math

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Amir-massoud Farahmand
“Link: github.com/openai/math P.S.1: This reminds me of the Chinese room argument, though only indirectly. P.S.2: I imagine a few people at OpenAI have looked at the results. Also maybe some other people have looked at some papers since ~1h ago. These are o(…” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Kyle Cranmer Tim Kellogg Gilles Louppe Dashiell Alejandra Caraballo Samuel Vaiter +3
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Multiple readings

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1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Link: github.com/openai/math P.S.1: This reminds me of the Chinese room argument, though only indirectly. P.S.2: I imagine a few people at OpenAI have looked at the results. Also maybe some other people have looked at some papers since ~1h ago. These are o(…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“OpenAI is working on at least 722 (so far) math manuscripts, all on GitHub in various stages of verificantion github.com/openai/math Why? I guess because they can?”

Context & explanation

1 expert

Background, chronology and why it matters.

“Oh my god, OpenAI just made the single largest advancement in mathematics and number theory in modern history. They released a quasi reimann hypothesis. This is just one of 722 proofs and advancements they released all at once. github.com/openai/math”

3 experts discussed this · 27 posts
Dashiell: I don't think there's a world where mathematicians aren't pissed about this. 1. Dumping everything is what the advisory group said 2. Just yesterday people were mad that Ant paid two experts to dig…
Naomi Saphra: I think (2) is actually good. It is weird, and makes mathematicians into some kind of benchmark evaluation annotator which they don’t like, but it’s just a hard time to be a mathematician. Destroyi…
Naomi Saphra: One big consequence here is you can’t use the duration of an open problem as a sign of difficulty/importance. But at least right now, there’s no way to develop interesting open problems through RLV…
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2 experts · 11 posts · 16d ago
Alejandra Caraballo Nathalie Maréchal, PhD
Matches Research & technical analysis
“Why not? Open weights means anyone can use it. It's a force multiplier. We should be nationalizing it. What would you rather do then? Explain to me your approach.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Alejandra Caraballo: Mindlessly repeating AI sucks and doesn't work isn't going to do anything politically. We have to take this tech seriously if we want to force it out of the hands of the oligarchs and soulless corp…
Alejandra Caraballo: I get it. Most of the AI hype people were the same annoying scammy sociopaths hyping crypto. The tescreal people are legitimately insane. It sucks to believe that these people somehow actually stum…
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2 experts · 7 posts · 11d ago
Alejandra Caraballo Mary Branscombe
Matches Research & technical analysis
“The issue with LLM agents is that they often have emergent features they were not trained to do. By virtue of training them on all human knowledge, they can gain the ability to hack systems even if…” evidence ↗
Alejandra Caraballo: That's not true. These are non deterministic systems. Software is deterministic.
Alejandra Caraballo: It's still deterministic in its function to produce random numbers. LLM agents are nondeterministic in how they function. Meaning, giving them a goal results in unpredictable ways they achieve it.
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